Ariel Millennium Thornton

Related, that's not kettle corn, not at all. Kettle corn is popped in an entirely different kind of vessel:

Arnold Schrock on YouTube, "Amish man and wife making kettle cooked popcorn." [4:09]: youtube.com/watch?v=TxmIbhUaoe

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Lets Eat on YouTube, "Popping Popcorn in Chinese Style | Crazy Chinese Popcorn Cannon Machine | Chinese Street Food" [4:13]: youtube.com/watch?v=xkG_CxIttj

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Today in things I never knew I wanted: A popcorn cannon.

Yes, they're real cooking vessels, not the practical jokes they sound like.

You add kernels and a bit of water to a mortar, seal it, heat it to build up pressure, then open it explosively into a catch sack. The kernels don't pop until the sudden pressure drop, when they all pop at once.

departures_arrivals on YouTube, "Amazing popcorn cannon (China)" [1:10]: youtube.com/watch?v=Ta5jh9VglD

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

An awful lot of the FOSS ecosystem needs to

1. touch grass,
2. get away from fellow techbros and meet real people in all our diversity,
3. learn good technical writing, and
4. put some effort into making their programs easy for ordinary, non-techbro users to intuit.

In short, get out and look back at it.

Examples of what not to do:
* Fail to make a command/program with the same name as the package.
* Fail to make that command either do the obvious thing or give useful help toward that end.

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CNET reviews via the Wayback Machine (1996-12-21), "11 HTML editors for easy Web pages": web.archive.org/web/1996122107

About 50 KB per page, including graphics. Yeah, those pages are HTML 2 or 3 with CSS None, but it's just as easy to redo in HTML 5 with CSS 3 while keeping the same presentation, improving accessibility, and not bloating beyond about 50 KB per page, including CSS and graphics.

This was the World Wide Web we threw away for browser-heavy frameworks.

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Daphne Preston-Kendal

‘It’s not GPLwashing! It’s not GPLwashing!’ I insist as my LLM carefully reproduces another project’s code line-for-line and says it’s not copyright infringement because it changed the capitalization

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Daphne Preston-Kendal

Fucking. Hell. github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14

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hamsternet

Remember to give thanks for the things that are truly important this Thanksgiving

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

reminder that Fuck John Carmack

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wayback.exe

CNET reviews - comparative reviews - 11 HTML editors
Dec 1996
web.archive.org/web/1996122107
oldweb.today/random/1996122107

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Vert

young men deserve spaces where healthy masculinity is modelled.
trans men deserve spaces where healthy masculinity is modelled.
older men deserve spaces where healthy masculinity is modelled.
anyone exploring their own masculinity deserves spaces where healthy masculinity is modelled.
people performing work associated heavily with masculinity deserve spaces where healthy masculinity is modelled.

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Fritz Adalis

An oscillator is a cross between an ocelot and an alligator.

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Has a coal-huffing, water-guzzling city-sized chatbot masquerading as AI recommended buying stock in the extremely lucrative South Sea Company yet?

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The Bad-tempered Klavier

Just read an article detailing how Microsoft executives are confused and upset that people don't appreciate their AI features and don't like people giving them shit about them on Twitter. "How are people not impressed with this stuff?"

Fellas, have you used the internet lately? It's fucked. Have you used Windows? Fucked. It's shit. People are sick of it being shit, because it didn't used to be as shit as this. You've gone and fucked everything, that's why people aren't happy with you.

pcmag.com/news/microsoft-exec-

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Illegalhex

I will not talk with a chatbot
I do not want it while I shop

I do not want it on Windows X-box
I do not want it in Firefox

I do not want it in my house
I do not want it on my mouse
I do not want it here or there
I do not want it anywhere.

I do not want AI and Spam
I do not want them Sam-Alt-Man

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../kajer/.

@dangoodin As I.T. professionals, we have been training users to not click random shit since the internet became accessible to everyone.

Microsoft training copilot: CLICK ALL THE THINGS

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Dan Goodin

Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data

arstechnica.com/security/2025/

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💙🩷💜Ⓑⓡⓔⓣⓣ🐡🍉🐧

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Radgryd

And a happy FUCK OFF to AI from Emma Thompson. 😌

#FuckAI #EmmaThompson #StephenColbert

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Lesley Carhart :unverified:

I have a friend who prefers to stay anonymous who gives this amazing talk in non US (but allied) countries about how long their internet will -really- function if they lose all comms with American data centers and it’s… phew. It’s a thing. Some resilient ones will last a few weeks before certificates expire. But CF is a wrench.

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